The Ukraine Holomodor

History books failed to inform many of us about the 1932-1933 holocaust or homodor of the Ukranian people.  My grandparents left their home country of Ukraine in 1914 and I'm grateful they did.  After you read this, you will be too.

I watched Glenn Beck's "The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die" -- most do not know about the millions upon millions of lives lost in a different genocide of the Ukrainian people under the Stalin regime. My heart is heavy with thoughts of 25,000 people dying EACH DAY.  How did this happen?  Why did it happen?

The shortage of grain was due to Stalin.  Stalin ordered all farms in the Ukraine be turned into communal farms.  Those farmers who did not comply were imprisoned.  One farmer in particular was forced to divorce his wife.  After he left prison, he could not see his children or his family.

All grain was shipped to the Soviet Union where Stalin then shipped this grain elsewhere for profit.  . . . All food stocks were forcibly requisitioned; a military cordon prevented all supplies from entering; and the people were left to die. The aim was to kill Ukrainian nationhood, and with it the “class enemy.” The death toll reached some 7 million. The world has seen many terrible famines. . . . But a famine organized as a genocidal act of state policy must be considered unique. (2)  


Piers Brendon, The Dark Valley, pp. 248-49 (2000) gives this description, drawn from still further sources, all cited in his notes:

A population of “walking corpses” . . . even ate horse-manure for the whole grains of seed it contained. . . . Cannibalism became so common-place that. . . local authorities issued hundreds of posters announcing that “EATING DEAD CHILDREN IS BARBARISM.”. . . 

They staggered into towns and collapsed in the squares. . . . Haunting the railway stations these “swollen human shadows, full of rubbish, alive with lice,” followed passengers with mute appeals. . . . [They] “dragged themselves along, begging for bread or searching for scraps in garbage heaps, frozen and filthy. Each morning wagons rolled along the streets picking up the remains of the dead.” Some were picked up before they died and buried in pits so extensive that they resembled sand dunes and so shallow that bodies were dug up and devoured by wolves.

According to S. J. Taylor, Stalin’s Apologist: Walter Duranty, The New York Times’s Man in Moscow, p. 202 (Oxford University Press 1990), “. . .Soviet authorities . . . require[d] that the shades of all windows be pulled down on trains traveling through the North Caucasus, the Ukraine and the Volga basin.” At pp. 239-40, Taylor says this famine “remains the greatest man-made disaster ever recorded, exceeding in scale even the Jewish Holocaust of the next decade.”


According to Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine, pp. 261-62 (1967):
In 1932-3, the years of the great famine which followed the forced collectivisation of the land, I travelled widely in the Soviet Union, writing a book which was never published. I saw entire villages deserted, railway stations blocked by crowds of begging families, and the proverbial starving infants. . . . [T]hey were quite real, with stick-like arms, puffed up bellies and cadaverous heads. I reacted to the brutal impact of reality on illusion in a manner typical of the true believer. I was surprised and bewildered—but the elastic shock-absorbers of my [Communist] Party training began to operate at once. I had eyes to see, and a mind conditioned to explain away what they saw. This “inner censor” is more reliable and effective than any official censorship. . . .


Glenn Beck + Video: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/35425/  (graphic)

Information on the Homodor was taken here: http://www.israelshamir.net/shamirReaders/english/Lysson--Holocaust-and-Homodor.php